Film
The Skinny magazine film guide. We bring you the latest new releases, UK film festivals, previews, reviews, exclusive interviews with film directors and actors, opinion pieces and film features.
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Dvd ReviewsAmerican Assassin
Sub-Bourne action film American Assassin sees Dylan O’Brien play an ordinary young man who turns dead-eyed killing machine after his girlfriend is gunned down by terrorists Read more »| 24 Jan 2018 -
NewsOscar nominations: many good decisions and a few bad ones
The nominations are in for this year’s Oscars, and it’s a pretty progressive lineup, suggesting campaigns like #MeToo and #OscarSoWhite might be at last dragging Academy voters into the 21st century Read more »| 23 Jan 2018 -
FestivalsJosie Long’s Glasgow-set comedy to premiere at GFF
Comedian and actor Josie Long’s love affair with Glasgow continues with her debut feature Super November – described as both a “romantic comedy and Orwellian dystopia”, it will have its world premiere at Glasgow Film Festival Read more »| 23 Jan 2018 -
News
James Bond fan edit turns series into 'Bond v Bond' film
It’s Bond v Bond v Bond v Bond v Bond v Bond in this crazy James Bond feature length mashup Read more »| 19 Jan 2018 -
News
Tom Hardy's late 90s rap mixtape resurfaces
And the shocking part is, it's not terrible Read more »| 19 Jan 2018 -
Festivals
EIFF announce Karen Gillan as Youth Strand patron
The star of Guardians of the Galaxy and Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle has been named as patron of the Edinburgh International Film Festival’s youth strand “The Young and the Wild” Read more »| 18 Jan 2018
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News
Watch this surprisingly good fan-made Harry Potter film
The 52-minute low-budget fan film is not without its bad dialogue, incoherent editing and cheesy acting, but the magical effects are kind of, well, magic Read more »| 18 Jan 2018 -
Festivals
GFF to close with doc on Scottish workers who defied Pinochet
Nae Pasaran tells the story of how workers at the East Kilbride Rolls-Royce factory defied Pinochet’s brutal dictatorship and helped ground half of Chile’s Air Force Read more »| 17 Jan 2018 -
Opinion
First Past The Post: Newspapers in the Movies
You may have noticed that the US President isn't a fan of journalists. The movies, however, adore them. Ahead of the release of Steven Spielberg's The Post, we look at cinema's love affair with the free press, from His Girl Friday to Spotlight Read more »| 16 Jan 2018 -
FestivalsTrainspotting producer Andrew Macdonald leads GFF Industry programme
The full programme for Glasgow Film Festival's industry strand has been announced, and includes a timely look at gender imbalance and the urgent issue of harassment in the film business Read more »| 16 Jan 2018 -
News
Timothee Chalamet donates his fee from Woody Allen film
The Call Me By Your Name star is the latest actor to express regret at working with the veteran New York director Read more »| 16 Jan 2018 -
Tv Radio
TV version of Gareth Edwards’ Monsters in the works
Edwards' low-budget monster movie from 2010 is being developed into a sci-fi series for Channel 4 Read more »| 15 Jan 2018 -
News
Joaquin Phoenix turns vigilante in Lynne Ramsay’s brutal thriller
The trailer for You Were Never Really Here, one of our most anticipated films of the year, shows Joaquin Phoenix's character ready to hand out some violent retribution Read more »| 12 Jan 2018 -
News
Listen to Jonny Greenwood’s stunning Phantom Thread score
The Radiohead multi-instrumentalist's fourth collaboration with Paul Thomas Anderson is now available online, and it's stunning Read more »| 12 Jan 2018 -
Festivals
FrightFest reveal Glasgow Film Festival line-up
This year the horror festival features new films from Brian O’Malley and Xavier Gens, as well as haunting anthology tale Ghost Stories from The League of Gentlemen's Jeremy Dyson Read more »| 11 Jan 2018